Time Libraries Rough Draft

Seth Kurtzberg seth at cql.com
Fri Feb 11 05:29:03 EST 2005


Simon Marlow wrote:

>On 11 February 2005 10:11, Seth Kurtzberg wrote:
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>>The problem is that it has been stated several times on this thread
>>that there will be no leap second table, nor a way to use one.  If
>>that's not correct, then there is no problem.  
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>I think you've misunderstood.  The plan was never to get rid of TAI
>altogether; the discussion has been about whether getCurrentTime should
>return TAI or something UTC-based.
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Yes, you are correct, and I did miss that.  Apologies.

>In case you missed it, here's Ashley's latest proposal, which includes
>full support for TAI and leap second tables:
>
>  http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/libraries/2005-February/003158.html
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>Cheers,
>	Simon
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